{"id":59790,"date":"2025-06-04T02:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=59790"},"modified":"2026-06-04T00:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:16:40","slug":"the-departure-of-the-plumber-leire-diez-from-the-psoe-and-the-ugly-conclusion-that-can-be-drawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/06\/04\/the-departure-of-the-plumber-leire-diez-from-the-psoe-and-the-ugly-conclusion-that-can-be-drawn\/","title":{"rendered":"The departure of the 'plumber' Leire D\u00edez from the PSOE and the ugly conclusion that can be drawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) has a problem that is growing excessively: there are more and more people who know too much.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/28\/how-many-leires-are-there-in-the-psoe-and-why-have-some-media-kept-quiet-until-now\/\">How many Leires are there in the PSOE and why have some media kept quiet until now?<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/31\/the-psoes-clumsiness-it-confirms-its-dirty-campaign-against-the-civil-guard-with-a-hoax\/\">The PSOE's clumsiness: it confirms its dirty campaign against the Civil Guard with a hoax<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, after a meeting lasting more than two hours at the PSOE national headquarters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20250603\/leire-diez-convoca-manana-prensa-reunirse-psoe-ferraz-audios-contra-uco_303647.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the socialist \"plumber\" Leire D\u00edez requested her voluntary resignation from the party<\/a>. A very timely departure, since <strong>this way the Socialist Party avoids having to investigate<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/28\/cuantas-leires-hay-en-el-psoe-y-por-que-algunos-medios-han-callado-hasta-ahora\/\">D\u00edez's shady dealings<\/a> in an attempt to settle judicial investigations related to the PSOE's corruption scandals. <strong>This way, the party will not be able to expel her<\/strong>, so her departure remains an amicable matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The alternative was much worse: creating another loose end with a person who knows too much<\/strong> and who, when the time comes, could repeat what happened with former minister \u00c1balos, who ended up leaking uncomfortable information to the media. <strong>That's the biggest problem the PSOE has now: many people have been implicated in its scandals<\/strong> and the possibility of blaming certain people for those deaths is becoming increasingly smaller, because <strong>these people know too much and treating them badly could mean torment for the party<\/strong> after a while.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday's events are already very revealing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.es\/espana\/leire-diez-fontanera-psoe-reniegan-dentro-partido-20250527080333-nt.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last week, the official PSOE thesis was that Leire D\u00edez acted on her own<\/a> and was not working for the party. <strong>If this were true, she would have been expelled by now<\/strong>, if only for making infamous promises in exchange for political favors that give <strong>an image of the PSOE very similar to a mafia<\/strong>. Instead, there was a meeting lasting more than two hours at the PSOE's national headquarters, and everything was settled with a friendly march. One might wonder: <strong>In exchange for what will D\u00edez remain silent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I couldn't help but draw <strong>an ugly conclusion watching yesterday's farce<\/strong>, especially considering that we're talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elnortedecastilla.es\/valladolid\/el-cronista\/1998-carcel-vera-20220913221826-nt.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the same party whose leaders made an even worse farce in 1998<\/a>, when <strong>Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez and the PSOE leadership accompanied former Interior Minister Jos\u00e9 Barrionuevo<\/strong> and former Secretary of State for Security Rafael Vera to the prison door after they were convicted for their role in <strong>the GAL case, a state terrorism scandal<\/strong>. That, more than a gesture of solidarity, seemed like a way to ensure that neither of them would \"sing\" before ending up behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, <strong>the history of the PSOE is like an eternal return to the same swamp<\/strong>. It is the history of a party with an innate tendency toward political corruption, derived from <strong>its ideological defense of an elephantine state in which the Socialists have people plugged into all kinds of institutions<\/strong>, turning socialism into a metastasis for democracy. Meanwhile, while that circus was taking place yesterday on Ferraz Street, <strong>Pedro S\u00e1nchez still failed to appear before the media or Congress<\/strong>, as part of that Socialist strategy to create a firewall around the Prime Minister to protect him from the effects of that dirty war scandal against the UCO of the Civil Guard, <strong>as if S\u00e1nchez didn't know what was going on in his own party<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It's all so ridiculous and so surreal that it should provoke laughter, if it weren't for the fact that <strong>they are destroying our democracy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>+ UPDATED 13:52h: the circus continues, now with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20250604\/leire-diez-niega-todo-aldama-irrumpe-comparecencia-amenazarla-no-sabe-hecho_303747.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a surreal press conference by Leire D\u00edez in a hotel<\/a> (who paid for this?), in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozpopuli.com\/espana\/politica\/rueda-de-prensa-de-la-fontanera-del-psoe-leire-diez.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">V\u00edctor de Aldama, commissioner of the Koldo Case plot, has burst in<\/a> and stated: \"this \"The lady is lying.\" <em>\"It's all a lie. A lady who says she's here to do an investigation and threatens a lieutenant colonel of the Civil Guard and a civilian like me, is she doing an investigation? You're journalists. I don't think you're going to threaten and say that someone has to be killed or that Aldama has to be silenced no matter what,\" according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozpopuli.com\/espana\/politica\/rueda-de-prensa-de-la-fontanera-del-psoe-leire-diez.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VozP\u00f3puli<\/a>. <strong>This whole circus only makes the PSOE's scandals bigger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Efe.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish Socialist Workers&#8217; Party (PSOE) has a problem that is growing excessively: there are more and more people who know too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[24547,693,2721,10641,10796],"class_list":["post-59790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-leire-diez","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-political-corruption","tag-socialism"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 07:11:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}